Having a Life: Self-Pathology After Lacan

Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: A well-written, original contribution to contemporary psychoanalytic writing, focusing on the lack of a sense of self. The book looks at identity in symbolic terms and finds a kind of weak redemption possible -- the triumph of Kohut, ultimately, over Lacan (though the latter doesn't get short shrift, even if his theories seem underintegrated at times). The writing is clear and compassionate; only the final chapter on Althusser seems underimagined.